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1. Musick's monument; or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine, and civil, that has ever been known, to have been in the world. : Divided into three parts. The first part, shews a necessity of singing psalms well, in parachial churches,...
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2. Orpheus Caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs.
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3. The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies
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4. Popular music of the olden time. A collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ... with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also a short account of the...
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5. The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c.
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1. Musick's monument; or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine, and civil, that has ever been known, to have been in the world. : Divided into three parts. The first part, shews a necessity of singing psalms well, in parachial churches,...
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2. The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c.
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3. The dancing-master: or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin
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4. [A composite music volume : containing Country dances selected as perform'd at court and all publick assemblies and entertainments Part 1 & 2, and Caledonian country dances being a collection of all the celebrated Scotch and English country dances now in...
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5. Popular music of the olden time. A collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ... with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also a short account of the...
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Musick's monument; or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine, and civil, that has ever been known, to have been in the world. : Divided into three parts. The first part, shews a necessity of singing psalms well, in parachial churches, or not to sing at all; directing, how they may be well sung, certainly; by two several ways, or means; with an assurance of perpetual national-quire; and also shewing, how cathedral musick, may be much improved, and refined. The second part, Treats of the noble lute, (the best of instruments) now made easie; and all its occult-locked-up-secrets plainly laid open, never before discovered; ... directing the most ample way, for the use of the Theorboe, from off the note, in confort, &c. ... In the third part, the generous viol, in its rightest use, is treated upon; ...
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